Portable house



(No Model.)

' E. DENSMOBE.

PORTABLE HOUSE.

Patented May 11,1886.

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EDWlli DENSMORE, OF GRAND RAPlDS, MICHIGAN.

PORTABLE HOUSE.

BEEGIE'ICATION forming part of jet-ters Patent No. 341,735, dated Play 11, 1886.

Application filed Julie 23, 1884. Serial No. 135,791. (No model.)

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with its tenon in the groove of the sill, fast- Be it known that I, EDWIN Dnnsnonn, a ened byits pin 5, and the plate corresponding citizen of the United States, residing at the to the sill is placed upon the post with the 5 city of Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent upper tenon in the end groove of the plate,

5 and State of Michigan, have invented a new and first panel, 0, is slipped into the grooves and useful Portable House, of which the folin'the plate and sill until it enters the groove lowing is a specification. in'the side of the post. Then the next stud,

My invention is an improved portable house B, is slipped in in the same way until it matches the walls of which are constructed, mainly, of with the panel, when it is pinned by pins 5.

1o veneers. v Then another panel, or the parts ofa panel and Theinvention consists of details of construcwindow, are added in the same The tion, the object of which is to provide for window is shown in panel No. 2. The sash readily putting up and taking down the house, fits in the grooves of the posts and has grooved and in connection with this facility in taking frames a at, one above and the other below,

1 in pieces and putting together I have sought both fitting into the grooves in the studding, to secure strength, stability, and the exclusion and being grooved to receive the sash and the of water. panel-sections above and below. The panels In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is and studding are added in this way until the a perspective view of the house, and Figs. 2, other side of the house is reached, when an- 2c 3, 4, and 5 are like views of details. other corner-post is set up and pinned in place,

In Fig. l Frepresents the cross-sills; F, the when the addition of panels and studding is lengthwise sills. These are plain scantliug, continued in the same way. The doors are of except that they are grooved on the upper surcourse fitted in rabbets instead of grooves, and face to receive the .panels, studding, and the are hinged to one of the studs. This completes 25 cornerposts. The cross-sills may be con the house up to and including the plates. nected to the lengthwise sills in any suitable On top of the plate is set at each end a stud, manner, as, for example, by the means shown B, which serves as a king'post to sustain the hereinafter for connecting the rafters to the ridge-pole D. On this ridgepoleissupported 8o ridge-pole. In the drawings, the sills F F the rafters E. Theya-re connected to the ridge- 0 are shown extended to the front to support pole by angleirons G, which are held in a verandaroof. (Not shown The plates the ridge-pole by pins 7 and to the rafters by are shown at A A, the former being the bolts or screws 9. The rafters have lateral crossplates and the latter the longitudinal grooves for receiving the roof-panels d. The 8 plates. These are plain scantling grooved upper ends of these roof-panels enter grooves 5 on their under surfaces, and on upper also, 8 in the sides of the ridge-pole. The lower and are connected at the corners in any edge of the roof thus forined rests on the side suitable manner. The panels are repre plate. Before the end rafters are put .in place sented at 0, being plain veneered boards or the end panels, a, are inserted. Their edges 0 boards formed of veneers with the grains runrest ingrooves in the underside of the rafters,

o ning in opposite directions. The studdings at the ends, if desired. Thelower edge of the are shown at B. The corner-posts have tenroofmay be held down in any suitable inanons m, preferably set into the posts, as shown ner. The rafters are of special construction, in Fig. 2. The tenons have holes for the adas shown in Fig. 4. The upper part, c, is a 5 mission of metal pins 5. The studdings have plain piece of board or scantling, preferably 5 grooves 4 4 on opposite sides to receive the beveled on its upper edges. Thelower piece, edges of the panels. The posts at the corners, c, is rabbeted on its sides, leaving a central are the same as the studdings, except that the higher part, 10, and a lower edge, 1l,in which grooves 4 4, instead of being on opposite sides, are longitudinal grooves 12. When the upper are on contiguous sides. It will be understood part is screwed to the lower, as shown in Fig.

50 from this construction that in putting up the 4, this construction leaves two lateral recesses house the sills are to be laid first and prop adapted to receive the side edges of the rooferly connected; then acorner-post is set up panels (Z, and these edges being over the grooves 12 in the bottom of the rabbet allow any water entering the recesses to run down and escape. As the edges of the roof-panels are adapted to be readily put into or removed from the recesses, the water is liable to enter.

Fig. 5 represents a section of the panels, showing the grain in the outer and middle layers.

I am aware that portable houses with grooved sills and plates with tenon and mortise corner-posts have been heretofore known, and that grooved recesses in the rafters combined with metal clamps have been heretoforeshown, and I limit my claims to the precise details heretofore stated.

I claim as my invention 1. In a portable house, and in combination, the sills F F, grooved on their upper surfaces, the plates A, grooved on their under surfaces,

20 the'posts and scantlings having tenons adapted to fit the grooves in the sills and plates and grooved to receive the panels, the panels adapted to the grooves in the posts, studding, plates, and sills, and pins for holding the parts together, all substantially as described.

2. In a portable house, and in combination, the sills F F, the plates A, grooved on their upper and under surfaces, the plates A, grooved on their under surfaces, the posts, studding, and panels fitted to each other and to the grooves in plates and sills, and the panels c c, king-post B. and the roof supported thereon, all substantially as described.

3. In combination with the grooved rafters E, panels d, and ridgepole D, and the angleirons G, attached to the roof, all substantially as described.

, EDWIN DENSMORE. \Vitnesses:

ARTHUR O. DENISON, EDWARD TAGGART. 

